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Cervical Intraepithelial NeoplasiaNCT01058148

A Comparison Study of Two Community Outreach-Based Approaches to Increase Participation of Women Living in the Mississippi Delta in Cervical Cancer Screening

An observational study of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Human Papillomavirus, run by National Cancer Institute (NCI) at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

Background: The Mississippi Delta (which includes the counties along the Mississippi River) is one of the poorest areas in the United States. Women living in the Mississippi Delta have disproportionately high rates of cervical cancer, but they are unlikely to come to clinics except perhaps for giving birth, years… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 26 to 65 years, women only
How many people
400 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
22 Dec 2009to 13 Apr 2011
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 26 to 65 years
  • Women only
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Women who are age 26-65 years, not pregnant currently or in the past 8 weeks, who have an intact cervix, no history of cancer, have not been screened for cervical cancer in the last 3 years, and able and competent to provide informed consent will be considered eligible for the study.

Who cannot join

  • Women under 26 or over 65 years of age.
  • Pregnant women or women who have given birth to a child in the past 8 weeks. To insure women included in the study are not pregnant, we will ask women during the consenting process if they are pregnant or gave recently given birth. Women who answer yes for either query will be excluded.
  • Women who have had a total hysterectomy.
  • History of cervical cancer
  • Screened for cervical cancer in the last 3 years.
  • Other reasons to exclude women include the inability to speak English, the appearance of mental incompetence, or refusal to participate or sign the informed consent form.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • National Cancer Institute (NCI), 9000 Rockville Pike

    Bethesda, Maryland, 20892

Other trials in United States

About this study

Background:

  • The Mississippi Delta (which includes the counties along the Mississippi River) is one of the poorest areas in the United States. Women living in the Mississippi Delta have disproportionately high rates of cervical cancer, but they are unlikely to come to clinics except perhaps for giving birth, years before they are diagnosed with cancer.
  • To improve rates of screening, researchers are attempting an outreach study to see whether under-screened women, if approached by door-to-door recruitment, would get screened by one of two methods (home-based self-collection and testing, or a clinic exam) and which method they would prefer.
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Objectives:

  • To assess/measure increased participation of under-screened women living in the Mississippi Delta in cervical cancer screening by offering women the opportunity to get screened by one of two possible community outreach-based cervical cancer screening modalities, self-collection and HPV testing or clinic-based cytology screening, the current standard of care.

Eligibility:

  • Women between 26 and 65 years of age, who are not pregnant currently or in the past 8 weeks, have an intact cervix, have no history of cancer, and have not been screened for cervical cancer in the past 3 years.

Design:

  • Researchers will recruit participants on a door-to-door basis. Researchers will recruit all eligible women within a household. Recruitment will be done only during daylight hours but at the end of the working day to maximize the chances of finding women at home.
  • Eligible women willing to participate will complete a questionnaire with demographic and medical information.
  • Participants will be asked to choose the screening method of their preference. If they choose self-collection with HPV testing, they will be given a self-collection kit and asked to perform the self-collection and return the kit within 1 month. Participants who choose to have cytology screening will be provided with the phone number and location of the local health department clinic and will be encouraged to schedule their screening within the following month.
  • Women who do not complete their participation within 1 month will be considered noncompliant with their chosen intervention. Researchers will re-contact noncompliant women to offer them participation in the study, including permitting them to refuse to participate or to choose the alternative intervention....
Read the detailed description

We have been conducting a study of self-collected cervicovaginal specimens and carcinogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing for cervical cancer screening of women living in the Mississippi Delta, who have disproportionately high rates of cervical cancer. To date, we have noted high levels of participation as well as high percentages of completion and return of the home self-collection. Although we have recruited some under-screened women into our study, it was clinic-based (i.e., under-screened women were still required to come to the health department clinic), using Mississippi State Department of Health district clinics. In reality, women who get cervical cancer in the Mississippi Delta are unlikely to come to clinics except perhaps for giving birth, years before they are diagnosed with cancer. Thus, as an ancillary study to our work in Mississippi, we are proposing an outreach study to determine whether under-screened women, if approached via door-to-door recruitment, would participate (get screened) by one of two community outreach-based cervical cancer screening modalities, home-based self-collection and HPV testing or clinic-based cytology screening, and which of the two modalities they prefer. We will recruit door-to-door 400 under-screened, eligible women aged 26-65 years living in the Mississippi Delta. Consenting, eligible women will be given a choice of taking and using a self-collection kit on their own or coming to the local Health Department clinic for cervical cytology screening. Under the assumption that only 5% of this under-screened population would choose to undergo screening without intervention, recruitment of 400 women into the study will permit us to detect a 2-fold increase in participation in screening (defined as completing screening) with 90% power (alpha = 0.05). In this scenario, we will be able to detect with 90% power (alpha = 0.05) a 25% preference for one of the screening methods (75% vs. 50% (no preference)).

Keywords
Cervical Cancer Screening, Cervical Precancer, Self-Collection, Cytology, Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
Medical subject headings
Uterine Cervical Dysplasia

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted28 Jan 2010 (estimated)
  2. Study start22 Dec 2009
  3. Study completion13 Apr 2011

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrolment
400 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01058148
Sponsor's protocol ID
999910036
Other IDs
10-C-N036
Status last verified
13 Apr 2011
First submitted
27 Jan 2010
Last updated
2 Jul 2017
Results posted
No

Publications

  • Jemal A, Siegel R, Ward E, Hao Y, Xu J, Murray T, Thun MJ. Cancer statistics, 2008. CA Cancer J Clin. 2008 Mar-Apr;58(2):71-96. doi: 10.3322/CA.2007.0010. Epub 2008 Feb 20.

    PubMed 18287387
  • Cuzick J, Clavel C, Petry KU, Meijer CJ, Hoyer H, Ratnam S, Szarewski A, Birembaut P, Kulasingam S, Sasieni P, Iftner T. Overview of the European and North American studies on HPV testing in primary cervical cancer screening. Int J Cancer. 2006 Sep 1;119(5):1095-101. doi: 10.1002/ijc.21955.

    PubMed 16586444
  • Dillner J, Rebolj M, Birembaut P, Petry KU, Szarewski A, Munk C, de Sanjose S, Naucler P, Lloveras B, Kjaer S, Cuzick J, van Ballegooijen M, Clavel C, Iftner T; Joint European Cohort Study. Long term predictive values of cytology and human papillomavirus testing in cervical cancer screening: joint European cohort study. BMJ. 2008 Oct 13;337:a1754. doi: 10.1136/bmj.a1754.

    PubMed 18852164

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Human Papillomavirus, run by National Cancer Institute (NCI) at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 6 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 2 Jul 2017. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT01058148, which also lists 3 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 2 Jul 2017.

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